Usually means: Mystery that is puzzling, confusing.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. enigma: Merriam-Webster
  2. enigma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. enigma: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. enigma: Collins English Dictionary
  5. enigma: Vocabulary.com
  6. Enigma, enigma: Wordnik
  7. enigma: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Enigma, enigma: Wiktionary
  9. enigma: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. enigma: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. enigma: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Enigma, enigma: Dictionary.com
  13. enigma: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. enigma: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Enigma: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. enigma: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. enigma: Rhymezone
  19. enigma, enigma, enigma: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. enigma: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. enigma: FreeDictionary.org
  22. enigma: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. enigma: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. enigma: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. enigma: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. enigma-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Enigma (disambiguation), enigma: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Enigma: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Enigma: CCI Computer
  3. Enigma (disambiguation), Enigma: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ENIGMA: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enigma: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See enigmas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
noun:  A riddle, or a difficult problem.
noun:  Riddles and puzzles, collectively.
noun:  Mysteriousness; obscurity; lack of clarity.
noun:  A style of literature characterized by obscurity and hints of transcendental meaning.
noun:  A protein with three LIM domains (a conserved cysteine- and histidine-rich structure of two adjacent zinc fingers) at the C terminus that regulates protein phosphorylation.
noun:  The Talaud kingfisher, Todiramphus enigma.
noun:  Any of species of Oedaleonotus enigma of grasshoppers.
noun:  Any of species of Heliothis enigma of rare moths.
noun:  (historical) A German device used during World War II to encode strategic messages.
noun:  Alternative form of Enigma [(historical) A German device used during World War II to encode strategic messages.]

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